Allthough FREESCO is a single floppy router, it can also be installed on a HDD. This opens the possibility to install so called 3rd party add-on packages. The main online library site for these packages is FREESCOSoft.
This chapter describes the steps to install FREESCO on a hard disk.

The next step after preparing the harddisk with a bootable FAT/FAT32 system, is to boot the PC with your FREESCO floppy. Then login as root (default password is also root if you haven't changed it yet) and type the next command:

move2hdd

after succesfull completion of this process, remove the floppy from the drive and reboot the PC. At the C:\> prompt type:

After the move to HDD you'll notice FREESCO doesn't start automatically. This can be easily fixed by copying the file C:\ROUTER.BAT to C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT:

C:\> COPY ROUTER.BAT AUTOEXEC.BAT

However, sometimes it's desirable to stay in DOS mode (f.i. to run scandisk when you system has become Read Only due to power failure or a hardware reset without shutdown), so a much more elegant method is to install a so called BOOT menu.

Place the next code in CONFIG.SYS (Mind you, this is just an example, your situation may be different, i.e. the location of the DOS commands, so check this!)

This will show the boot menu 5 secs and defaults to FREESCO. If SCANDISK is choosen, it will perform a scandisk and then start router. DOS, well, is dos

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This may sound strange for a linux system, but is has one major advantage too, if for some reason you run into troubles with your FREESCO, you can boot the PC in DOS command prompt and correct the problem via normal DOS commands